Rotary Club of Maleny Bulletin for 7th March 2018

"THE RANGE"  Vol. 59 No.14
WEDNESDAY 7th March 2018

THIS WEEK'S MEETING
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm for Greg Beard on Sisters of Mercy.

APOLOGIES
Apologies to Bernice before noon on Tuesday 6th.

DUTY ROSTERS                       
                           7th Mar          21st Mar         4th Apr                         
Duty Officer        Rick V            Michael G               
Assist DO           Chris R-S      Sherryl G          
Registration        Greg W         Bernice McL
Fellowship          John W          Andy S

SAUSAGE SIZZLE ROSTER
10th March
Jim Atkinson  (Leader)  Keith Rogers  John Whan

24th March
Lionel Tilley  (Leader)  Jeff Cornfoot  Roly Neiper

CLUB ORGANISATION
Details of the make up of the currrent Board and Committees can be found at the end of this bulletin.

MINUTES OF MEETING OF 21ST FEBRUARY
A well attended meeting with five guests - Gail Denver (MDSRC), Winston Johnston (Lions Blackall Range), Colin Sandford (Lions Blackall Range), and Rotary partners Leon and Mike.

Following the usual formalities President Alan held a Rotary new member induction ceremony for Laurelle Owen. He was assisted by Bernice.  Following the ceremony all members rose and formally welcomed Laurelle to the Club.

President Alan briefed the meeting on the make up of Club committees and confirmed that the 2018/19 Board Changeover dinner will be on the 27th June at The Orangery. As usual Alan promised some form of entertainment on the evening but would not elaborate. Alan also asked members to consider if they could nominate anyone to attend the next RYLA camp.

Rick V attended a community ‘morning tea’ hosted by the Member for Fisher Andrew Wallace. Rick  had the opportunity to discuss the project for shade cloth over the netball courts at the Maleny High School. The Club has received a Federal Government grant of $19,000 for the project but this is way short of the $360,000 quoted by the Qld Government works department. There will be further meetings on this issue.

Jeff asked the members to consider options for the Melbourne Cup lunch fundraiser and hoped that more members would become involved. Jim commented that the 3 Melbourne Cup lunches that we have held raised over $18,000.

Gail Denver spoke about the MDSRC Awards dinner on Saturday 24th March at The Orangery. They have an excellent guest speaker in Dr Adrian McCallum from USC.To get an idea of what Dr McCallum may talk about at the dinner I suggest you google his name.

The raffle was won by Peter McGuirck. The Sergeant Chris again dreamt up some outlandish tales to fine members and guests.

Visitors Gail, Winston and member Greg then combined to give us an interesting and informative overview of a proposal for a community park to be established by a joint project involving Rotary, Lions, Apex and the MDSRC. The location would be on Parkland Drive next to the Light Horse Parade ground. The proposal is for a Memorial Walk commemorating the ‘pioneer women’ of the Maleny District, barbecues, a playground and toilet facilities. A possible name would be the Memorial & Pioneer Community Park.

The suggestion is that a joint committee with representatives from the 4 groups be formed to get this started. It was noted that the proposed park would be on the MDSRC leased part of the Maleny Precinct land.



Greg thanked Gail, Winston and Colin. Jeff presented all 3 guests with a Rotary Maleny Platypus shopping bag and a copy each of Maleny’s best calendar. 

President Alan thanked all for attending and closed the meeting.

ALLEVIATION OF MALNUTRITION PROJECT IN PNG - PROGRESS REPORT

FROM RUSS STEVENSON

This progress report is being sent because your Club expressed interest in the project and pledged funds towards a Global Grant to implement it. I have been focused primarily on awareness within D9600 and fundraising over the past 12 months or so. It is a long time since I spoke to your Club, hence the need to update you on progress.

The Budget

The aim was to provide funding of US$50,000 for the project. Unfortunately, I have fallen short of this goal but there may be a couple of late contributions to help out.

So far, we have a total of US$37,865 from $20,000AUD contributed by Rotary Clubs (Nambour $10,000, Gympie $5,000, Nundah $3,000 and Maleny $2,000). This becomes $30,000 when matched by D9600 DDF and $37,850 US  when TRF funding is added. This total is $12,150 under budget for the project.

An extra $5,000 AUD would bring us up to just over $50,000 USD. With some luck we might get closer to our budget goal before the proposal is actually submitted in a few weeks time.

Work undertaken to date:

• I have undertaken extensive research in the planning of this project, including seeking advice from a variety of technical experts.
• Scoping study undertaken by in Feb – March 2017.
• Draft booklet with illustrations, daily diet chart and workshop manual  created.

Work to be done:

• Global Grant request to be submitted to the Rotary Foundation in March 2018. 
• The Train the Trainer workshops for volunteer trainers from 10 representative village groupings (ca 30 trainees) will be held at Mougulu in June 2018.

 The Process for fund donors:

• After TRF have considered the project and approved it (a ca 1 month process ), they will notify me to inform me that the project will be supported by TRF.
• TRF will advise me to set up a special bank account for the project 
• Monies to be matched by TRF must then be deposited in that account. No funding can be provided by TRF until all cash contributions are deposited. Presumably, the same conditions apply for funds from D9600 DDF.
• As soon as I receive confirmation that TRF will support this project, I will notify those Rotary Clubs who have pledged funds to support the project of this and ask their Treasurers to deposit pledged funds into the project account. I hope this will be completed by mid May at the latest to give you an idea of a possible time frame.

FUTURE MEETINGS & EVENTS
14th March
Board Meeting at the Masonic Hall.

21st March
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker Les Hall on the Fauna & Flora of Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve plus Gordon Jones video.

28th March
Masonic Hall at 5:30 for 6:00pm for Club Assembly.

4th April
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker Billie Murphy on SolarBuddy.

20th-22nd April
District Conference Maroochydore RSL

1st-2nd June
Maleny Show

BIRTHDAYS FOR MARCH
5th Judy Tilley  26th Rick Vickers

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES FOR MARCH
6th John & Beth Whan  22nd Peter and Kay Wilkinson

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MALENY ROTARY CLUB EXECUTIVE TEAM
BOARD MEMBERS
President  -   Alan Wilson
Vice President  - Michael Gregory
Secretary  - Bernice McLennan
Treasurer  -  Jim Atkinson
Vocational - Ric Townsend
Club Admininstration / Membership - Philip Stark  
International/Foundation - Angela Griffin/ CL Claridge
Community Relations/Youth - Greg Williams
Service Projects - Rick Vickers/Chris Ross-Smith/Jeff Cornfoot
 
Other Roles
Minute Recorder - Lionel Tilley  
Guest Speakers  - Michael Gregory                                          
Bulletin Editor - Keith Rogers

MALENY ROTARY CLUB COMMITTEES   
1.Grants Committee            2.RAWCS - Ebenezer Zambia 
Confidential                         Angela Griffin
                                            CL Claridge
                                            Jim Atkinson
3.RAWCS-Nepal               
Chris Ross-Smith                4.Show Committee
Jim Atkinson                        Bernice McLennan
CL Claridge                         John McLennan
               
5.Social Committee             6.Calendar Committee
Phillip Stark                         Lionel Tilley
Roly Neiper                          Rick Vickers
                                            Jeff Cornfoot 
7.High School Project         Jim Atkinson  
Chris Brooker                         
Jeff Cornfoot                        
Greg Williams               

8.Membership/USC Project Committee 
Phillip Stark
CL Claridge
Angela Griffin
Roly Nieper
Chris Ross-Smith
Rick Vickers

9.Qld Australian Cross Country Athletics Title
1.Rick Vickers
2.Chris Brooker
3.Greg Williams